Amend Amendment No. 1 by Duncan to SB 1 (senate committee printing) as follows:

(1)  Add the following appropriately numbered ARTICLE to the amendment and renumber the remaining ARTICLES of the amendment accordingly:

ARTICLE _____. REPEAL OF TEMPORARY EXEMPTION OR TAX REDUCTION FOR CERTAIN HIGH-COST GAS

SECTION ___.01.  Section 201.057, Tax Code, is repealed.

SECTION ___.02.  The change in law made by this article does not affect a tax imposed before the effective date of this Act. A tax imposed before the effective date of this Act is governed by the law in effect when the tax was imposed, and that law is continued in effect for purposes of the liability for and collection of that tax.

(2)  In SECTION 23.05 of the bill, strike amended Subsection (d), Section 81.117, Natural Resources Code (page 56, lines 27 through 30), and substitute the following:

(d)  The comptroller shall suspend collection of the fee in the manner provided by Section 81.067 [91.111]. The exemptions and reductions set out in Sections 201.053, [201.057,] 201.058, and 202.060, Tax Code, do not affect the fee imposed by this section.